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The Naked Scientists Podcast

The Sun and Us

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Fetch your sunglasses because we're looking into the science of sunlight: from the past to the future, what has the sun meant to humanity? Plus, in the news: a global update on COVID, toxic mercury in glaciers, and a new glue that sets underwater. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

All engine running.

0:04.0

running.

0:05.0

I'm so genius. Get this.

0:06.0

Welcome.

0:07.0

This is the show where we bring science.

0:09.0

What that essentially means is

0:10.0

Discoveries,

0:11.0

the classes, research, technology, unbelievable. is discoveries in the advances research technology unbelievable

0:14.6

without further ado this is the naked scientists

0:18.0

hello welcome to the program where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science

0:21.6

technology and medicine I'm Chris Smith and I'm

0:24.7

Adam Murphy and this week we get a global update on COVID, toxic mercury in glaciers

0:29.1

and a new glue that comes from muscles.

0:32.8

Plus fetch your sunglasses because we are looking into the science of sunlight.

0:38.0

From the past to the future, what does the sun meant to humanity?

0:42.3

The Naked Scientists Podcast is dominated by

1:00.9

whether the Delta variant that we formerly called the Indian

1:04.1

variant and also a recent uptick in cases could derail the roadmap out of lockdown.

1:09.4

For now the Prime Minister is standing by his plans and buoyed up by impressive vaccination

1:14.5

rates with over half the UK adult population now double vaccinated says he currently sees

1:19.1

nothing in the data to suggest we should do otherwise, although the government are keeping their options open,

1:25.0

and things may change. Nevertheless, the US is also in an equivalently good place.

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